What's New in 2004 about the GNU Project

We have placed a banner on top of the main page to thank Poland for blocking the European software patent vote. We urge all proponents of software Freedom to not only do the same with their own sites, but also send a letter thanking them for doing so. More information can be found here.

14 Decemeber 2004

www.gnu.org now provides an RSS feed for our what's new page. We are gradually internationalizing our news. You should soon be able to read GNU RSS in your own language.

The Independent reports a US Computer Emergency Response Team alert regarding Microsoft's Internet Explorer security vulnerabilities. "It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser." (However, they should not refer to the people who exploit these security holes as "hackers".)

Added a Take Action page, and linked to it from the front page, and from /keepingup.html. The purpose was to allow for greater flexibility of description of what actions we can take, while still providing a brief summary on the front page to explain what we need help with. Take Action is modeled after the What's New page.

21 May 2004

Added new instructions for mirroring www.gnu.org to www.gnu.org/server/mirror.html. We are now recommending using rsync to update mirrors (from ibiblio.org, rather than directly from us).